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Bangalore Stories
Dial Press
May 2006
On Sale: April 25, 2006
224 pages
ISBN: 0385338201
EAN: 9780385338202
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Multicultural Indian
Wry humor and a delicious grasp of the friction between
generations in Bangalore are the hallmarks of Lavanya
Sankaran’s fresh, deeply nuanced debut collection. “A
potpourri of beggars and billionaires and determinedly
laid-back ways,” Bangalore, India’s own Silicon Valley, is a
crucible for prosperity, and at the chaotic crossroads
between past and present. Here, American-trained
professionals like Tara return to their old-fashioned
families with heads full of Quentin Tarantino dialogue; a
successful entrepreneur is shaken when his partner suddenly
reneges on their plan to return to America; a traditional
Indian mother slyly circumvents her Western-educated
daughter’s resistance to marriage; a neighborhood gossip is
determined to discover what goes on behind the closed
curtains of the hip young couple across the street; a
chauffeur must reconcile his more orthodox credos with his
employer’s miniskirt lifestyle. Witty, affectionate, and wonderfully wise, Lavanya
Sankaran’s first collection attests to her remarkable
literary talent.
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